By Sunimalee Dias
The Colombo Dockyard is currently carrying out repairs at the yard worth over US$4 million in expected revenue.
Accordingly there are six vessels undergoing repairs at the yard from India, Norway and Maldives. The LPG Carrier Nanga Parbat owned by the Shipping Corporation of India with an expected revenue of US$1 million while the Chemical Tanker Sanmar Majesty owned by Sanmar Shipping Ltd. of Chennai, India with an expected revenue of US$1.2 million are the highest costing repairs.
The LPG Carrier Nanga Parbat is involved in a major drydocking and lay-up repairs being carried out inside the drydock. This is one of the first major repairs being carried out on a LPG carrier and the yard has specifically facilitated cryogenic workshop space to carry out specialised repairs on LPG carriers.
A major lay-up and drydocking related repairs are ongoing on the Chemical Tanker Sanmar Majesty vessel, which is a chemical tanker geared to carry hazardous chemicals. Her last cargo has been sulfuric acid. Major work involvement is in the stainless steel cargo tank acid assisted passivation process. Clad steel renewal with a complex repair process is being carried out on this vessel.
The other US$1 million revenue worth vessel is the Ocean Research Vessel Sagar Kanya owned by the Shipping Corporation of India and the National Institute of Oceanography of the Government of India. This very complex research vessel, calling into Colombo for her third occasion over a span of 10 years has gained from the services of CDL, which had carried out major retrofit upgrading work on this vessel during the year 2005. During this call she will attend to her routine drydocking related work.
Tanker Kirsten vessel of Thome Ship Management, Singapore owned by Norway is carrying out routine drydocking related work and is expected to enter the drydock No.4 soon after docking of the two vessels currently in drydock. This is also a new Owner/Manager that has been attracted by us after the country established peace and stability and focused on Far Eastern owners. The expected revenue is US$400,000.
The Maldivian National Defence Force owned NSS Ghazee vessel was built by CDL and has returned for her routine lay-up repairs. She will undergo drydocking and routine maintenance repairs with expected revenue of US$300,000.
Tanker Hibaru vessel owned by Fuel Supplied Ltd. of Maldives is undergoing routine drydocking related repairs. This is her second call for drydocking to Colombo with repairs costing US$150,000.
source - www.ft.lk
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